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<Project>$BLOCK.DBF

The default field structure for the miscellaneous blocks IMAGE file, <Project>$BLOCK.dbf, is as follows:

Field NameWidthDescription
DRAWING255The name of the drawing file that the component is from.
BLOCK59The full name of the block representing the component.
HANDLE20The AutoCAD handle for the component symbol.
X10X co-ordinate of the component insertion point.
Y10Y co-ordinate of the component insertion point.
TAG_1, TAG_2, ...7Fields containing the tag for each attribute.
ATT_1, ATT_2, ...20Fields containing component attribute data.

TEXT entities are also extracted into the <Project>$BLOCK.dbf image file. For TEXT entities, the BLOCK field will contain the value "TEXT" in place of a block name, TAG_1 will contain the original text value and ATT_1 will contain the replacement value that you can edit.

See also

Customise the format of the image database files